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UN Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos has warned that tens of millions of people have started the new year in need of urgent humanitarian support and that the capacity and resources of the international humanitarian system are stretched “to the limit”.
“We enter 2014 with multiple, severe...

Heavy fighting broke on 15 December in South Sudan’s capital Juba and quickly spread to four other states, forcing over 120,000 people to flee their homes. Some 63,000 people have sought refuge at the UN peacekeeping bases around the country. Despite the access challenges caused by insecurity, aid...

UN agencies and humanitarian partners today appealed for $152 million to help meet the immediate needs of people affected by the ongoing violence in the Central African Republic (CAR).
Since the start of the violence in early December, nearly 800,000 people have fled their homes seeking greater...

When Hasna and her family fled Syria to the El Buss camp in southern Lebanon last winter, the experience was bitterly familiar: Hasna had fled Palestine during the 1948 War, at age 10, moving with her family to the Yarmuk camp in Syria.
After the disruption of this first displacement, Hasna’s family...

UN agencies and their humanitarian partners continue to have limited access to thousands of families affected by seasonal floods and inter-communal fighting in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region.
“The flooding has affected some 66,000 people in 33 villages in Jowhar district alone,” said...